Milo Yiannopoulos is a journalist, provocateur, and noted online troll. The outlandish, British tech editor for Breitbart is best known for his incendiary tweets that forced the service to remove his verification and also allegedly also sending followers at specific targets where they attempt to do their worst in 140 characters or less. All of these acts have now seemingly earned him a removal from Twitter.

His ejection from Twitter reportedly stems from a recent run-in with Ghostbusters actress Leslie Jones.

I feel like I'm in a personal hell. I didn't do anything to deserve this. It's just too much. It shouldn't be like this. So hurt right now.

When she responded to him, his fans and followers inundated her with awful remarks. They then created a fake Leslie Jones Twitter account to spread misinformation using lemmetweetthatforyou.com. This led to Jones taking to Twitter, where she continued to be harassed.

You have to hate yourself to putout that type of hate. I mean on my worst day I can't think of this type of hate to put out.

Milo isn’t smart? Haha Ok. Besides being an amazing speaker and one of the few public writers/intellectuals that’s actually interesting, he’s basically taking the spot left by Hitchens as the guy the regressive left hates but rarely takes on head to head because of his mental and verbal superiority.
I disagree with plenty he says and I know much of it is not sincere and meant only to rile up the regressive left pussies who are known to have no sense of humor whatsoever. It’s funny that one of the few intellectuals out there with any balls is also a bleach blonde flaming homosexual with a penchant for big black dicks.

@Ketos, just because you fetishize black men, doesn’t make you tolerant. In fact, as a black man, it’s really fucking offensive. The fact that it’s oblivious to you and Milo speaks volumes about white privilege and it’s intangible results. Good riddance to Brother Nero.

My focus hasn’t been on your race. My focus has been on the fact that you’re a thin-skinned little bitch who isn’t intelligent or confident enough in his beliefs enough to tolerate opposing viewpoints.

Wow–“You’re a thin-skinned little bitch who isn’t intelligent or confident enough in his beliefs enough to tolerate opposing viewpoints.”

If that’s the same level of intelligence and debate skills that Milo exhibits, then he’s more like Kenny Powers than Hitchens. Or maybe that’s just how his borderline-illiterate followers like yourself behave.

Guys I don’t know if you know this but… Milo is a homosexual. Now I don’t know if he wanted that info going public but apparently Twitter found out about it.
I think we can therefore be fairly certain that Twitter just committed a hate crime against the gay community. I know the Uproxx writers were looking forward to summer break now that Ghostbusters has been released but there’s a new fight worth fighting now. Let’s start with an article every hour, with every other one including the word “priceless”, often used incorrectly. Let’s go!

First time hearing about this Milo fella, but a lot of these supporters sound like little children. He got booted from Twitter, people. This is not a civil rights violation nor is it a big deal. He is getting more attention because of it so he should be happy about it

If it’s not a big deal, then you should agree that censoring the dude is the wrong thing to do…especially since Leslie Jones was not suspended for her homophobic retweets directed at Milo and her past racist tweets.

I’ve been banned from every single one of my local news sites comment boards. I choose to laugh about it rather than cry about pretend civil rights. You would expect conservatives to applaud the rights of a business to manage itself how it wants to

@RomanCandle – If you break the rules of any service, you get dropped. It isn’t a civil right’s violation, it isn’t racist or sexist, it isn’t censorship… it’s business. If you don’t like the rules a business creates to protect their product, you don’t have to use it.

Yes, it is censorship. I’m going to give you this quote from the ACLU, and then drop the mic on your dumb ass.

Censorship, the suppression of words, images, or ideas that are “offensive,” happens whenever some people succeed in imposing their personal political or moral values on others. Censorship can be carried out by the government as well as private pressure groups.

@RomanCandle obvious troll is obvious. Denial of private service (Twitter) is in no way analogous to supressing words or ideas. Twitter has done nothing to prevent The Gay Trump from expressing himself. But at least people have gotten past trying to invoke the constitution, or freedom of speech in a case like this where it does not apply.

Again, both of you are objectively wrong. Denial of a private service is totally legal and does not violate anyone’s free speech rights, BUT IT IS STILL CENSORSHIP. The fact that you admit it is a “denial of a service” is the giveaway: Milo now cannot express his opinions on one of the most popular websites on the internet.

@RomanCandle – Pick the mic back up – A publicly traded company isn’t a “private pressure group”. “Milo now cannot express his opinions on one of the most popular websites on the internet.”… because he broke their rules (Terms of Service) which he agreed to in order to open an account. How difficult is that to understand. You can’t agree to rules, openly break them, and then screaming censorship.

@RomanCandle – probably b/c those individuals didn’t consistently harass and troll for media attention. How many times have those other individuals violate the TOS and get their account suspended compared to Milo.
Also, I looked all over for articles on the Maher Trump stuff and found nothing. Do you have a link? Just curious to see what he said.

So people should be banned for “trolling for media attention”? Is that a specific TOS violation? Do you honestly think Bill Maher and half the left-wing comedians out there haven’t consistently tweeted offensive and provocative things? That’s their whole MO. They shouldn’t be censored for offending conservatives, just like Milo shouldn’t be censored for offending liberals.

Go to Maher’s Twitter account, you’ll see the Trump sons rapist tweet and a thousand other things.

@RomanCandle – When the trolling consists of publicly attacking twitter, then yes, it’s breaking their rules. Here is a good article on the rule/TOS changes over the years. Also, Maher said the Trump kids “look like the date rapist in every school special ever”… which isn’t untrue. But he’s not calling them rapist.

Saying someone just looks like a rapist is okay? So by that standard, all the trolls who said Leslie Jones looked like a monkey (which, btw, Milo never did) weren’t being racist and abusive at all, right?

Also, you seem to be implying that Milo was banned not so much for the alleged abuse and racism, but instead for criticizing Twitter. So this just an example of a big corporation exploiting all those things to silence dissent against themselves, yes?

Weird question….why didnt she turn twitter off? People are mean, and even meaner online, I just dont understand why celebrities use twitter for anything other than promotion. Anyone on that shit and taking it as “reality” deserves whatever comes their way. Twitter is like taking the time to read every insult on the bathroom wall.

It’s because of the context between the two. You’d have to dig a little bit to find fault with Leslie Jones, whereas Milo spewed hatred daily and frequently requested his followers to harass anyone he didn’t like. According to Twitter, it was a clear choice. Sorry Twitter got a little less alt right.

If Milo’s supposed to be so smart, why are all his supporters such blathering morons? The dude is an asshole who broke the terms of service on a website he signed on to.

There are plenty of left wing “influencers” or what have you that have been banned for infractions of these terms. The alt right didn’t shit their diapers over those accounts while yelling incoherently about the first amendement, though.

Bill Maher didn’t get banned for calling Trump’s sons rapists, that GQ writer didn’t get banned for saying he wanted to punch that mom of the dead Bengazhi soldier, and Leslie Jones didn’t get banned for making racist jokes against whites and light-skinned blacks, or her retweeting of homophobic slurs against Milo.

He’s being censored for being racist and repeatedly violating the TOS. That’s logical and I, for one, believe we shouldn’t interfere with a privately owned company’s decisions. You spin it how you’d like.

Eesh. Some toddler level insults flying about there. I assume that when I die my millions of disciples and critics will dissect everything I’ve ever posted on social media so I don’t post anything but gold. Can’t have the plebs thinking I was anything less than a stone cold certified genius.

Um, I see the hateful racist tweets, and I see Milo Y’s tweet about her being illiterate. But I don’t see any indication that those racist tweets came from his followers? Like, it seems like that picked a random guy and banned him for #reasons. I picked one at random, but the last guy in the list is not banned, despite the Harambe comment.

People need to stop bitching about what private companies do with “their” social media accounts. You do not have carte-blanche to do whatever you want on their network– but they do. It is not a violation of free speech– or censorship– it is a product of our corporate society. He can pick up a URL and find a hosting network and spew whatever garbage he wants on there. Same with Azealia Banks– didn’t hear any conservatives getting all upset when she got banned; but everyone seems all sorts of sensitive now.

Glad to know I burned you so deep. Go ahead and mute me, that way you’ll never have to suffer crossing my path. Before you go, I do want you to know that I do feel empathy for those cops slain recently, but I had no foresight when setting up my account. I just happened to think the story of Chris Dorner was interesting and I thought myself provocative.[38.media.tumblr.com]

Everyone, including this low life and his followers, has the right to freedom of speech. They do NOT, however, have freedom from the consequences. Twitter has every right to do what they did. They list it right in their TOS, which you have to AGREE to in order to create an account. Also, if you’re going to stir shit up, at least have the balls to own it.

Anyone who thinks Milo is “intelligent” or “witty” please listen to his appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast.
Any time he is pushed to expand on a point, or challenged on his views, he crumbles. He simply makes a funny laugh, or says he is joking.
No conviction, no substance, no ability to back up his statements.
In other words, he is exactly like every other talking head trying to be famous.